Manufactured enemies who have much more in common than not [View all]

[Stinky The Clown]

In Wisconsin, the recall election ballot war pitted the unionized middle class workers against the non-unionized middle class workers. The vote of the 1% was a drop in the bucket, if it even existed at all.

One of the warring sides earns an average of $41,000. The other warring side earns an average of $49,000. As a percentage, that is a significant 20% spread. But when one zooms out a bit, that's not a lot of difference.

So why do these groups hate each other? They're essentially the same people.

Dick Army, with Koch brothers money, started this a few summers ago. The teabaggers created the rift, shouted the hate, fanned the flames, fomented the anger, used racial sterotypes. And here we find ourselves, today. Brother against brother in a conflict created by the people who stand to benefit from the manufactured class war.

Yesterday, the .01% had a self congratulatory extra glass of bubbly with their caviar stuffed lobster dinners as they watched natural allies fight each other. They needed to do that. Their very survival as the .01% depends on it. If yesterday's warring masses ever joined together, the .01% would see their lives changed.

We can't have that. Oh no.

Wisconsin was just the first round . . . .







(sourced of wage numbers: Dave Ross's commentary on CBS radio)